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Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer?
From: Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:05:59 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Steve Francis wrote: > I'm sure there is research out there... Why? :-) > ...how good/bad using DNS anycast is as a kludgey traffic optimiser? I'd hardly call it a kludge. It's been standard best-practice for over a decade. > THe question is, what is that "some" relationship? 80% as good as > Akamai? Terrible? Should be much higher than Akamai, since that's not what they're optimizing for. If you want nearest server, anycast will give you that essentially 100% of the time. Akamai tries to get queries to servers that have enough available capacity to handle the load. Since they're handling bursty, high-bandwidth applications, rather than DNS. -Bill
Current thread:
- DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Steve Francis (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Bill Woodcock (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Steve Francis (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Steve Francis (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? James (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Bill Woodcock (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Steve Francis (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Paul Vixie (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Steve Francis (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 01)
- Re: DNS Anycast as traffic optimizer? Bill Woodcock (Sep 01)